Death Stranding 2 system requirements are good news for gamers trapped between aging PCs and skyrocketing hardware prices, and there’s even a ‘portable preset’ for playing on handhelds

After making us wait for the better part of a year, Kojima Productions finally made the PC version of Death Stranding 2 official earlier this month. And with the release now just over three weeks away, port developer Nixxes has unveiled the official PC system requirements, which I’m happy to say aren’t terribly onerous. Obviously,…

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Anthropic says it has identified thousands of ‘fraudulent accounts’ taking Claude and ‘extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models’

The question of what data AI models are trained on, and the legitimacy of that data, is a thorny one. Anthropic found itself defending its use of copyrighted material to train its Claude AI in the US last year, a case that eventually resulted in a ruling that its copyrighted scraping fell under fair use…

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The maker of Prototype and Simpsons: Hit and Run returns from the grave just months after an out-of-the-blue update broke Prototype’s mods and added mysterious new credits

In news that will be deeply intriguing for a certain brand of rapidly-ageing millennial (me), it’s looking more and more like that susurrus of a Prototype remaster from last year might actually bear fruit. I say this because, as spotted by VGC, Prototype’s original studio seems to have reforged itself in a new form. New…

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The company behind the machines that make pretty much all our computer chips reckons it has worked out how to increase production capacity by 50%

If you haven’t heard of ASML, it’s the company that makes the machines upon which modern computing currently depends. Without ASML, well, computer chips would be very different. And now ASML is claiming a breakthrough in one of the key bottlenecks for manufacturing cutting-edge silicon thanks to a big boost in light production. ASML currently…

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